ReutersOil drilling advocate expected to be Trump pick for Interior Dept.: source...ReutersU.S. President-elect Donald Trump appears with U.S. Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers outside the main clubhouse after their meeting at Trump National Golf Club …

Business InsiderUS oil rig count spikes by 21Business InsiderThe US oil rig count jumped this week by 21 to 498, the biggest increase since July 2015 according to driller Baker Hughes. Six gas rigs were added, taking their total to 125. With miscellaneous …

ReutersOil drilling advocate expected be Trump's pick to head Interior Department...ReutersU.S. President-elect Donald Trump appears with U.S. Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers outside the main clubhouse after their meeting at Trump National Golf C …

MINING.comJapex postpones oil sands expansion project to mid-2017MINING.comJapan Petroleum Exploration (Japex) said Tuesday it will postpone launching its Hangingstone oil sands expansion project in Alberta, Canada, until mid-2017, which will result in a c …

CBC.caThe worst of the oil price downturn is over, says ATBCBC.caTwo years after the oil price collapse sent Alberta's economy into a tailspin, ATB Financial suggests the downturn is over and the province's fortunes will rise in 2017. The Alberta b …

CBC.caSaudis came out ahead in the oil price war, but everyone lostCBC.caTwo years ago, a barrel of oil sold for $82.04 US, and Saudi Arabia was producing somewhere around 9.75 million barrels a day, a potential $800 million a day in revenue. Last month, S …

Oil Prices Still Grappling With Glut — Energy JournalWall Street Journal (blog)In contrast to motorists in the U.S. and elsewhere who have benefited from plummeting world oil prices over the past two years, Brazilian consumers have gotten no relief at the …

The Sydney Morning Herald8@eight: Oil jump to drive ASX higherThe Sydney Morning HeraldThe local sharemarket is poised to open higher after Wall Street was boosted by a jump in the oil price. The US EIA crude oil inventories provided another 2.2 per cent g …

CBC.caCalgary energy veteran says oil downturn is over, but not everyone agreesCBC.caHere is King's case: Oil supply and demand came back into balance in the second quarter of the year and has stayed in balance even as Canadian production came back onl …

CNBCCould The Bottom Fall Out Of This Oil Rally?OilPrice.comThe oil markets will have to wait almost two more months before the uncertainty surrounding the pending OPEC deal is settled, so in the meantime a renewed focus on the fundamentals is in order. Th …